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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- So I finally reach the point that started me on this Lupin roller-coaster ride. This was a superb Lupin special, and it didn't need an nudity to achieve it! All it needed was Mamiko Noto as a prominent female. I still remember when her picture was not as good quality and I thought that she would play the heroine though she is kind of the heroine, isn't she? The final scenes when the whole gang came together were excellent in execution and Zenigata was pretty awesome himself. I was a little worried when Goemon started slicing people in half, but I guess Lupin has to evolve somehow even though Fujiko's chest is all that needs to be. I was disappointed that Lupin did not riddle Emily's body with bullets after she killed Mamiko Noto though. |
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| Poor Emily. |
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| Another post-2000 Lupin bore. |
| Lupin was raiding Area 51 before it was cool, and the antagonists were an all-female terrorist group trying to undermine the USA. Cool stuff. The action here was also good, and there was a killer for each one of them, and Jigen's and Goemon's battles were amazing. I also loved to see Lupin and Zenigata fighting together to survive that situation, it's just a pity that the one "assigned" to Fujiko got out alive without really fighting against her one more time after their first clash like it happened for Jigen and Goemon, but Fujiko still took part in the action in the end, and I loved it. Just Sophie was a bit too cheesy for me. Not fighting for real, seeing a vestige of her lost love in Lupin and being silenced for betraying her cause. Her specialty was poison, it would've been cooler if she really tried to kill Lupin, but I guess that it added a bit of "feels", and gave a bit of "weight" to the revelation that Emily was actually their boss. I saw it coming after the last special, poor Zenigata can't catch a break with the people he works with lately. Emily was pretty low too, but it was "nice" to see Lupin ending her, and avenging Sophie. But it did feel like he took her death too personally. Welp, in the end Lupin couldn't stop the project by stealing that sample, but he also didn't sell it to the other nations. |
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| For anyone who has seen Alcatraz Connection, it shouldn't have been hard to guess that Emily was the mastermind. I dunno if other movies/specials pulled off the same. Her being the one to kill Sophie was kinda unexpected, tho and I was a bit saddened by it. One of the more enjoyable Lupin specials. Can't really explain it myself, probably got the right timing to watch this. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |